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Name:<\/strong> Aileen Holmes How about a brief introduction?<\/strong> What\u2019s your goal before the year 2010 ends?<\/strong> What\u2019s your biggest fear?<\/strong> What\u2019s your favorite tool?<\/strong> Aileen Holmes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26941,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/26941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLocation:<\/strong> Costa Mesa, CA in sunny Orange County
\nWebsite:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.aileenholmes.com<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m an illustrator, graphic designer, and artist—an all-around creative person living the creative life in sunny Orange County California. I grew up making little books, coloring and sewing my own Barbie clothes. Now I do the adult version of what I did as a kid! My paintings are shown at art galleries, and I sell my work at indie craft shows in my local community. My main business is freelance graphic design, textile design and illustration for mostly the apparel industry and I do gig posters once in a while. Every day I do something creative!<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m so happy to say that I\u2019ve already achieved a goal I set out earlier this year: I\u2019ve done 4 art shows and 3 craft shows. And, I have more opportunities to connect with my community coming up! The rest of the year I\u2019ll be focusing on taking my work beyond the apparel industry. I\u2019d LOVE<\/span> to illustrate for books and magazines! I also want to license my artwork so my work can be on all sorts of cute products.<\/p>\n
\nDying young. I have WAY<\/span> too many ideas and try to squeeze the most out of my days. I have a sense of urgency with my work because I have a fear that I won\u2019t get all my ideas expressed. It might be morbid to think about death but my fear fuels me to get the most out of life.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m a bit obsessed with my Pentel Brush Pen which I\u2019ve been playing with non-stop. It\u2019s great for live sketching because it\u2019s so dramatic, yet the ink is contained inside the brush—very portable.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n